THE SYNERGETIC MODEL OF THE POLITICS CONCEPT (WITHIN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)

Abstract

The article reveals the mechanism of reconstructing gradually the POLITICS synergetic model that is traditionally organized as per the principle “core – close – far – extreme periphery” in American mind. The offered idea of core-periphery stratification differs from that of the cognitive model although it is not excluded to apply cognitive operations as auxiliary tools of synergetic research. In the previous study, it is the network format only that was used for reconstructing the cognitive field model (initially, the methodology “semantics of lingual networks” produced the conceptual model of POLITICS whose propositional schemas (sorted by decreasing frequency through the operations of cognitive interpretation and prominence) were further distributed to core and periphery zones, respectively). As opposed to that, the synergetic field model is offered to be generated via the matrix format structurally arranged with network elements. For this aim, four sets of research material are selected in which a varying difference in description of POLITICS is regarded as a criterion of concept division into core and periphery. Therefore, explanatory and specialized political dictionaries give the theoretically abstract information on POLITICS that is invariant for all participants of communication within American community (which stands for the concept core). Other sets of research material (political discourse, journalistic discourse, thesaurus and idiom dictionaries) reveal the practical actualization of information on POLITICS, and the varying degree of such explication shows a reason for equating them to respective periphery zones – close (political discourse), far (journalistic discourse), extreme (thesaurus and idiom sources). These research materials are processed through component analysis and cognitive interpretation, and finally four matrixes of POLITICS are obtained. In case of similarity, they are converted into the field geometrical form. The figure is analyzed whether it corresponds to Euclid’s homothety. If homothety for the figure is proved, a conclusion is made that the POLITICS concept has indeed self-similarity in American mind.